March 30, 2026 @ 8:16 am By Omar Faridi  |  

In a move to safeguard consumers’ access to financial services, Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chairman Andrew N. Ferguson has dispatched formal warning letters to the chief executives of PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL), Stripe, Visa (NYSE: V), and Mastercard (NYSE: MA). Issued on March 26, 2026, the notices highlight growing worries over reports that these… Read More

 Tagged banking, debanking, ftc, mastercard, paypal, regulation, stripe, visa

March 30, 2026 @ 3:46 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Danish acquiring company Clearhaus is introducing a payment facilitator solution that allows licensed businesses across Europe to manage payments directly for merchants using their platforms.  As part of the European payment group Unzer, Clearhaus enables technology firms, online marketplaces, and other licensed businesses to onboard… Read More

 Tagged clearhaus, denmark, payments, Robert Bueninck

March 30, 2026 @ 1:02 am By Omar Faridi  |  

UK’s digital bank Monzo has announced a significant achievement by surpassing the 15 million customer mark. This latest milestone underscores the rapid expansion of the challenger bank, which continues to attract users from diverse age groups and financial backgrounds while positioning itself as a comprehensive solution… Read More

 Tagged banking, digital bank, monzo, uk, united kingdom

March 29, 2026 @ 8:22 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Tokenization and crypto-backed mortgages? A revised CLARITY Act? Bitcoin price movement? Web3 Thoughts of the Week contains all that and more. Bitcoin “Bitcoin is currently showing signs of short-term improvement, but the broader technical picture remains unchanged, with the asset still trading within a well-defined… Read More

 Tagged Antoine Scalia, avtar sehra, bitcoin, cryptio, kaiko, Laurens Fraussen, Pineapple Financial, ruslan lienkha, Sergei Gorev, STBL, tokenization, youhodler

March 29, 2026 @ 7:50 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

SadaPay, one of Pakistan’s digital wallets, has fully restored its mobile app following a complete service blackout on March 25. The interruption was triggered by a drone strike linked to escalating tensions between Iran and regional powers, which directly damaged Amazon Web Services infrastructure in… Read More

 Tagged aws, fintech, outage, sadapay

March 29, 2026 @ 6:27 pm By Michael Wong  |  

Indonesia’s antitrust agency has fined 97 peer-to-peer lending companies a combined Rp755 billion ($44.6 million) after finding them guilty of coordinating interest-rate practices in a cartel scheme, according to a report by The Jakarta Post. The Business Competition Supervisory Commission, or KPPU, said the lenders… Read More

 Tagged enforcement, indonesia, KPPU, online lending, p2p, peer-to-peer lending

March 29, 2026 @ 2:29 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

German embedded finance Fintech Solaris is eliminating roughly 80 positions—about 20 percent of its 400-strong workforce—as it repositions itself as Europe’s first AI-native bank. The Berlin-based company, which holds a full banking license and provides white-label banking services, announced the restructuring on March 25, 2026,… Read More

 Tagged ai, germany, layoofs, solaris

March 29, 2026 @ 2:26 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

In a seemingly concerning development that has rattled investors and cybersecurity professionals, Anthropic’s highly anticipated AI model, internally referred to as Claude Mythos, has apparently been leaked to the public. The unauthorized release triggered an immediate sell-off, with shares of major software companies tumbling and… Read More

 Tagged ai, Anthropic, software applications, vulnerabilities

March 29, 2026 @ 10:18 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Visa will join the Canton Network as the first major global payments company to serve as a Super Validator, to help extend privacy‑preserving blockchain infrastructure to banks and financial institutions around the world. Visa will be one of 40 Super Validators on Canton. That move… Read More

 Tagged Canton Network, Eric Saraniecki, Rubail Birwadker, stablecoins, Super Validator, visa

March 29, 2026 @ 9:53 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Kotapay, a division of First International Bank & Trust (FIBT), recently announced that Giftly, a digital gifting platform that allows people to send personalized, monetary gifts, is live on Kavinu, FIBT’s bank-direct Banking as a Service (BaaS) platform. The partnership supports Giftly’s payout experience with… Read More

 Tagged digital gifting, First International Bank & Trust, Giftly, Kavinu, Kotapay, Timothy Bentley, trent sorbe